Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

In the stark confines of prison walls, a surprising phenomenon: Poetry thrives just as vibrantly here as in high schools or ...

Censorship and book bans have long shadowed Malayalam literature and cinema, but political vindictiveness has deepened the ...

In 2022, only 26.5% of nonfiction books reviewed in Britain’s newspapers were by women, and male writers dominated ...

The news was announced today as part of Wednesday’s CinemaCon presentation by the “Sound of Freedom” distributor. Based on a true story, “Truth & Treason” follows Helmuth Hüebener ...

The shortlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The top six novels include four debut authors as ...

Many Americans fear that the institutions protecting our democracy are under threat. Democracy originated in the city-states of ancient Greece, where citizens met in open forums to voice their ...

“Such a basis for her detention would represent a blatant disregard for the principles of free speech and free press within the First Amendment, and we call on Tufts University officials, ...

The writer has spent much of his literary career criticising the rise of Islam in Algeria, adn since 2006, his books have been ... to give him back his freedom and allow him to be treated for ...

“We must not forget that we would be restricting the fundamental right to freedom of ... has written several books of non-fiction and fiction and was formerly a speech writer for Socialist ...

He called the writer’s detention arbitrary and said that it had occurred in a “larger context” of widespread denial of freedom of expression ... published his first book, “The Oath of ...

“I’ve had to set that limiting belief aside,” she says, “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an interloper.” Her new guidebook is called “Dear Writer.